B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3872

HR 3872 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 1,342 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,539 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 511× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,342 years ago.

1,342 lybrightness mag 6.15B6V

Also catalogued as HD 84400 · HIP 47694

11,539 K
temperature
6.15
apparent magnitude
511× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,342 years
at light speed from Earth
2.00×
as hot as the Sun
511×
the Sun's light output
-1.92
absolute magnitude
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HR 3872B-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Vela

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.